Level 98: Jesse Harlin (Yoku’s Island Express)

Composer Jesse Harlin wrote the music for Yoku’s Island Express from Villa Gorilla, and WOW this soundtrack is good. In a way, I don’t want to spoil it, because we talk about nearly every single track Jesse put on the album.

It’s safe to say I have *several* favorite tracks, in part because the music goes through so many different styles. There’s trip hop tracks, music flavored with the sounds of Hawaii and Polynesia, Tuvan throat singing, sitar, Renaissance music, and a spot on tribute to Pink Floyd’s lead guitarist, David Gilmour (one of my personal favorite musicians).

Here’s a playlist:
Yoku Taidua and The Village
Monk Stumpin’
Spina and The Skullgangers
Out Down in the Underdark
Out Down in the Underdark
Signs of Life by Pink Floyd from Momentary Lapse of Reason
Out Down in the Underdark
The Crystalline Depths
Yoku Taidua and The Village
Spina and The Skullgangers
Spina and The Skullgangers
Flight of the Space Monks
Flight of the Space Monks
What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath
The Ceremony of Healing
The Ceremony of Healing
Hungers for Unders
Letting Off Steam
Gorilla Woods
The Slug Gardener
Monk Stumpin’
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